Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 12-13-2001 The thI acan, 2001-12-13 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-12-13" (2001). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 15. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/15 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. •·J;,, .,.:! (J VOL 69, No. 14 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. Y. DECEMBER 13, 2001 24 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan ·.;.L:_.-~·.,·.:;·,·;·· -> ·:, ·. <;: · - .',1,,_;·:.i_._.'[-h:'tf:.fo!:tj~$ll9Jl~rforthelthaca College Community ::~'C6tttgexnttl1izes Circles deal Apartmeii;t site to join campus starting in fall BY JOE GERAGHTY Assistant News Editor The College Circle Apartments will be­ come on-campus housing next academic year, and the complex will nearly double in size by Fall 2003. Bnan McAree, vice president for student affairs and campus life, announced the col­ lege has signed a memorandum of under­ standing with Ithaca-area developer Integrated Acquisition and D~velopment Corporation. Under the initial four-year agreement, the college would lease the apartments from IAD, which would maintain ownership and pay for the expansion of the apartments. The expansion would add 276 bedrooms, bringing the total to 600. All of the bedrooms are currently single-occupancy rooms. Vice President and Treasurer Carl Sgrecci said as many as 15 percent of the bedrooms could be converted to doubles, though such details still must be worked out. McAree said Ithaca Colleg~.students who live in the Circles this year will be offered the option of hvmg in the Circles again next year - in effect to return to on-campus housing. Earlier, administr~tors had planned not to al­ low current Circles residents to remain there. Sgrecci said IAD approached the college a year and a half ago, offering a deal simi- JOE PASTERIS/fHE ITHACAN SENIORS JEFF LEVI, left, Janna Friedman and Aaron Daniels walk across the bridge that connects the College Circle Apartments See COST, Page 2 to the Ithaca College campus Wednesday on their way to an 11 a.m. class. The Circles will be on-campus housing next fall. PRESIDENT WILLIAMS: Rushing toward Greek life A SPECIAL REPORT Peggy R. Williams came to Ithaca College in Fall 1997 with Students search out experiences with fraternities and sororities a Ph.D. from Harvard University and nine years as president at BY BROOKE BENNETT opted not to join the fraternity. unrecognized Greek organiza- tages, including scholarships Lyndon Stale College (Vt.). Srnff Writer ___________ "I decided it wasn't going to tions run by students at the college available from national organiza­ That was five years ago. be for me. People say it's worth to advertise on campus. tions and having a connection to And no one knew what direc­ When sophomore Geoffrey it once you're done with pledg- Senior Skip Paal, who is the so- brothers from other schools. tion Ithaca College would take Zoref enrolled at Ithaca College, ing," he said. "But it's a huge cial chairman of Phi Sigma Kappa, He said he also enjoys the di­ under her leadership. the lack of Greek life dtd not con­ commitment." 111111!~=:~ ... said seven men joined the . versity within the fraternity, in­ Since then, the college's cern him. But only one semester But the cha!- fraternity in the last cluding members from various seventh president has shown later, he found himself rushing to lengcs of pledg- rush, which he con- majors and two members who work she is willing to confront impor­ Delta Phi, a fraternity on the Cor­ ing do not deter siders a good size. for the Ithaca Fire Department. tant issues. nell University campus. everyone. "It's a really great group of In a special report on Although Ithaca College has no guys," Paa! said. Pages 4 and 5, Williams offic1<1l Greek system, some stu­ In addition to social functions, shares with The Ithacan what dents opt to join groups at Cornell. some fraternities do some com­ she believes she has accom­ Zoref learned about the Cornell fra­ munity service activities. Paal plished and what is ahead in the future of the institution. ternity when he took a course on said Phi Sigma Kappa does a fund­ East Hill during Winter Break. raiser for the Leukemia and Lym­ Durmg rush, students and phoma Society every year. Greek organizations get ac­ Drollette said fraternities do not quainted. After rushing, some Two Ithaca Because they are always deserve the bad reputation students are asked to pledge, dur­ College sopho- unofficial fratemi- they get. Pledges in Delta Kappa ing which time they learn about the mores, Eliza Lopez ties and sororities, they have two hours of mandatory group and are involved in a num­ and Janitza Lopez, are in do not have official houses, studying each night, he said. ber of initiation activities. Almost Lambda Pi Chi at Cornell, a Latina but members still often live togeth- "A pledge who fails out of all pledge activities are kept secret. community service sorority. They er once they move off campus. school is no good," he said. After rushing, Zoref was chosen chose to pledge despite the compli­ "Generally, a lot of brothers end Drollette said the negative to pledge. But two weeks into pledg­ cated requirements. Both women up living together, not because they stigma attached to Greek life ing, he decided he did not like be­ said sorority affairs are confidential. have to, but because they want to," bothers him more than not being ing required to go to the fraternity Ithaca College has not recog­ said junior Nicholas Drqllette, . recognized. house whenever his brothers nized social Greek organizations who will be the vice president of "They assume that what we're called, which often was Ia~e at night. since 1980, when a student died Delta Kappa next semester. doing is so horrible, that we're go- Not owning a car also _tnade getting during fraternity hazing. The col­ Paal said being a member of a - ing to corrupt kids into a black hole to Cornell difficult, he said. Zoref lege also does not allow the nine fraternity has a number of advan- of bad grades," Drollette said .. INSIDE ACCENT ••• 11 CLASSIFIED ••• 17 COMICS ••• 16 OPINION ••• 8 SPORTS ••• 19 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2001 National _ ar1d ! nternational President to launch changes in military HEAR ME ROAR President George W. Bush outlined Tuesday an ambi­ tious plan to overhaul the nation's military, vowing to erad­ icate terrorism with more sophisticated weapons, better in­ telligence and innovative battle plans. Calling the war on terrorism a preview of 21st-centu­ ry warfare, Bush declared his intention to push an urgent defense buildup. He called for more spending on unmanned aircraft, precision-guided weapons, intelligence gathering and an anti-missile system. "This revolution in our military is only beginning, and 1t promises to change the face of battle," the president told about 2,000 cadets at The Citadel, a South Carolina military col­ lege. "For states that support terror, it's not enough that the consequences be costly - they must be devastating." Ceremony remembers attack victims Blinking back tears, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stood with their hands over their ...._hearts as the Marine Band played the national anthem Tuesday in a ceremony commemorating the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Similar events occurred in more than 80 nations. Aboard the orbiting International Space Station, U.S. and Russian crew members marked the occasion by play­ ing anthems from both countries. "In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of Sep­ PETER ANDREW BOSCH/MIAMI HERALD tember the I Ith in stone and metal - something we can KABUL ZOO DIRECTOR Sher Agol Omeg feeds a lio,:i that was blinded by a Taliban hand grenade. show children as yet unborn to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day," Bush said. "But alleging a French Moroccan man conspired to kill thou­ for those of us who Ii ved through these events, the only Taliban surrender deadline extended sands of people in attacks on New York and Washington. marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of plot­ minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day." American bombs battered Al Qaeda's mountain refuge ting with Osama bin Laden, the 19 hijackers and other mem­ He paid tribute to the victims in personal terms, saying Wednesday and U.S. officials expressed concern that Osama bers of the Al Qaeda terrorist network to crash commercial "every one of the innocents who died on September the bin Laden or other top terrorist leaders might slip away jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 11th was the most important person on Earth to somebody." during protracted negotiations over a surrender. "The indictment today is a chronicle of evil," Attorney Afghan tribal commanders set a new deadline of noon General John Ashcroft said Tuesday. "Al Qaeda will now Officials catch immigrant smugglers Thursday local time (2:30 a.m. ESf) for a complete surrender meet the justice it abhors and the judgment it fears." of Al Qaeda that would include any leaders still in the area.